Customs Vs. Hot Rods - A Poll for you to consider...

Around 1920 "hot rod" was the arena for american teenagers: when they learned to work around bodies and engines.
Around 1940-1950 american teenagers began to work around body interior and external appearance.
As a member of european people I think hot rods and custom cars "are" a very important part of "american cars" history.
Let's things stay as they are.
my two cents.
Thank you!

 

Exactly, my '38 once I get to it will be a blend, mild channel and chop. Mild suspension drop to go with it and the stoutest drive train that I can afford.

A better example is one very notable '38 Ford deluxe, faster than a speeding bullet says it is a hot rod but until recently steelies caps and white walls make it a mild custom. Where does it lie and who is going to make that distinction?

OK rod or custom? Judge by looking not by knowlege.

Ryan sorry for stealing your stuff instead of kicking my teeth in just edit if this is out of line please.

 

I thought there was an amendment to the constitution in 1964 that prevented this type of thing...

 

Isn't that what the seperate tags are for? Ya know, the little blue letters next to the thread title.

 

is cool just the way it is

 

Actually I will go you one farther, isn't that what social groups are for?

 

They are but I would guess guys use them about 20% of the time when creating a post so it kind of defeats the usefulness of them.

 

When I went to the Frish's Big Boy on Saturday night in 1963 the Customs and Rods were all there. The two are intertwined and belong together. Leave it alone. Love them both. Car guys have to much in common to try to put them into individual boxes.

My 2 cents

John L

 

I like it the way it is now.

 

Our favorite magazines, both vintage and new, embrace both equally. I'm personally inspired by both and think they go hand in hand.

 

Here's the corner stone of our hobby set in place by Spence Murray. Why mess with a great thing?

 

The HAMB is like a "GUMBO".....a little of this and a little of that and it comes out great. Leave it alone.......

 

I am guessing that there is still quite a few people who don't get the general idea. The way I read it is that they will still be "general discussion" but within that section you will have a choice of clicking "hot rods" or "customs", so you can just read your preferred one first, and then read the other one if you wish. Not much different to a newspaper really, if you want to get to the sports section first you can go straight there, then read the rest later.
I really don't see how it can harm the board, as all members will have access to both right there one under the other. I can dig the idea.
Paul

 

I always felt that one compliments the other. I like both but my heart belongs to kustoms, and as I scroll through I get to see both. Like everyone else, I too say "it ain't broke".

FWIW beaner, that "certain coupe" is kustom hot rod. Those are a living blend of both schools of thought, and when we consider something like the Calori 36 they always have been. If the HAMB had a "Board of Directors" disguised as cars, and each represented the unlimited ideas, I'd vote that 36 as CEO. Hard point to make, but I hope I made it.

 

I can't speak for others. I get. I just don't agree with it.

John L

 

I am not a custom guy! I would probably be the one guy most would expect to be yelling "hell yes! Split them up!!!". But I'm not. I gave a soild "leave it alone" vote. I have come to realize that the 1 of 100 customs that really make me go "Cool" I read about here. And there is some good custom stuff going on around here to look at. look at Rikster's stuff, Koolkemp's Tyler Duden's, all custom threads that I have read end to end. I would have to say I'd miss that. Besides, even the other guys that are concerned about putting sunvisors on and just dropping the back of their '59 Olds (AARRGGG!!!) serve their purpose too... I need a blood pressure check every now ad then!

 

I'm for leaving it the same. Mostly, I'm a custom guy, but bottom line, I just like cars. I like scrolling through and reading whatever catches my eye...fab, tech, engines, rods, customs, whatever. It all works together to make me a better builder and appreciate what others are doing and the work that goes in them just that much more.

 

I'm a Customs guy first, a Hot Rod guy second, and the Gasser or Dragster things are growing on me, thanks to the Hamb. If it were my decision, I would not split customs off, but rather introduce a better way to filter customs content / versus hot rod content / versus gasser, vs whatever else.

Using the prefixes has been mentioned, but it appears that choosing an appropriate prefix is often overlooked. Perhaps when creating a thread, there should be a specific step to choose the prefix to help filter content for an individuals interests. Then, making it a little easier to do a search per prefix. Furthermore, we could have more prefix selections such as Customs, Hot Rod, Gasser, Engine, Electrical, Chassis.

If we wanted to get even crazier, there could be a further refinement of prefix, which would be a second step to refine the subject such as Customs -> Mercury, or Ford, or Common; Engine -> Flathead or Hemi, or SBC, or a General category; Hot Rod -> Model A. Of course there are plenty of areas where these could overlap. I haven't thought through ever particular detail, but I feel this has potential to help customize what an individual person wants to see.

I'd still like to see the main hamb page be everything included as one. I could elaborate on this further at a later time, but I need to get back to work.

 

I love em both. Nice to see one site.

 

I like all kinds of cars but mainly try to focus on hot rods but enjoy customs a lot and am leaning more that way everyday! I like the hamb as it is!

 

X2

Its the difference between New Coke and Classic Coke.

 

I will add my 2 cents here too....although it is starting to sound like a broken record...I enjoy the HAMB the way it is.

Finding threads about both hot rods and customs in one place is convenient and allows "the gospel" to be easily spread to a broad spectrum of members. If the board becomes overly compartmentalized it will create small niches which will detract from "the community" the HAMB promotes.

Perhaps an easier solution would require the author of a thread to choose from a list of categories (Hot Rod, Custom, Engine ?, Trans ?, Suspension ?, FYI, etc....) before the thread will post to the forum making it easier for the readers to sift through.

As far as a separate section for O/T....I vote NO for that. Designating an area for O/T threads will only open a Pandora's Box and dilute what the HAMB is about.

Like I said above, this is just my 2 cents.

 

At the moment I'm a custom guy......no wait, that's not quite correct, I'm a car guy. If I could afford the time and money I'd have a hot rod too. I like reading about hot rods as much as I do customs. Sure there are some threads that I don't care to read but, I'm sure that if there were separate forums I'd miss some threads that I do want to read. I say things are fine just the way they are.

Doc

 

Were was this in Ryans pole?

Please,Please,,Please,,NO OFF TOPIC SECTION,,you want that kinda site here?

If you guys want that someone start a social group for OFF TOPIC crap or go to that facebook site.HRP

 

I am into Kustoms real heavy but love hotrods too. so its a 2 sided edge pushrod

 

Seems fine how it is, IMHO, the variety is one of the things that keeps things fresh here. I don't know about you guys, but I like both kinds of music, "country and western"
I mean, I like both kinds of cars, hotrods and customs. Let's play what if...So if i build a custom dashboard for my hotrod, would I share that on the custom board or the hotrod one? How about if I hot-rod the engine on my custom with a two-pot intake and headers....which board then? I think there's probably a plethora of ways you could slice up the HAMB. I'd be more likely to vote for a pre-war vs post-war slice-up or a traditional vs non-traditional one... then you have the gassers, dragsters and the racing crowd aspect, but IMHO it's fine how it is for now.

 

What kind of site? If it is in it's own area you don't have to look at it and it gets it off the main board pushing good threads down everytime someone posts.

To me all the Happy Birthday...., Prayers for my friend, funny thing happened at the parts store threads are off topic and clutter up the main board with stuff that is IMO facebook stuff.

 

Hot rods, customs, whatever. Can you do something about all the damn Canadians on here?

 

it was a suggestion you missed part of my post when you were quoting it and like it says

sorry if this post starts a shit storm delete it

which to me means if Ryan doesn't want the suggestion blow it away

 

You left out Rant for a tag. I mean if you have to tag it Rant will have to be an option.

or maybe DUMB as many of the things that people pose as a question don't need to be asked when applying a little common sense would suffice.

I am all for KISS, keep is simple don't overly complicate it. My builds are that way and my life in general and it works real well.

Tell you something that is a real world example of the HAMB, I see a lot of of "look what I did!!!" I always open those threads, just to see what someone else did. Sometimes someone stuffed a huge mountain motor in a 4 door shit box of a car and other times someone hung '59 caddy fins on a '48 Ford but I always get exposed to something that I have not done or at least not done lately and it gives me ideas.

We all need real world exposure to the entire gambit of our hobby, we get it a lot by just not really knowing what someone else did to their car until we open the thread. If I knew what I was going to see ahead of time before I opened a thread every time there was a thread to be opened I would not open a lot of threads and it would not give me opportunity to think or experience something that I was not thinking about at the time.

Ok did you just read all of that, well put a "Rant" tag on it and continue on with your life, or maybe that would need a "soap box" tag.